President Joko Widodo pledged yesterday to defend “every inch” of Indonesia’s land and maritime territory, following clashes with Chinese vessels around Indonesian islands in the South China Sea, reports AFP. In a state of the nation address he also said Indonesia was “actively…

Fighters of the Islamic State group attacked an Iraqi border guard base near Jordan  yesterday , killing at least nine people before being beaten back, officers said, reports AFP. The early morning attack involved heavy mortar fire and saw clashes between jihadists and border guards defending their…

The Saudi-led coalition bombing rebels in Yemen launched a probe yesterday following international condemnation of an air raid that Doctors Without Borders said killed 11 people at a hospital it supports, reports AFP. More than 19 people were also wounded in the strike that hit the hospital in Abs,…

Turkish prosecutors have demanded two life sentences and an additional 1,900 years in prison for US-based Muslim preacher Fethullah Gulen, blamed by Ankara for masterminding last month’s failed coup, state media reported yesterday, reports AFP. In a 2,527-page indictment approved by prosecutors…

Iran has arrested a British-Iranian on suspicion of links to the UK intelligence service, the Tehran prosecutor told Iranian media yesterday, reports AFP. “The accused, who was arrested in Tehran last week, was active in the field of the Iranian economy, and was linked to the British espionage…

Two migrants were wounded in a shooting after a row in a migrant camp in the northern French port of Dunkirk, several sources said yesterday, reports AFP. A 30-year-old Iraqi migrant received a gunshot wound in the groin area and a 25-year-old man whose nationality was unknown was wounded in the side…

Fifteen Guantanamo Bay detainees have been transferred to the United Arab Emirates, the largest such release in years, the Pentagon announced Monday,…